On Tuesday, December 11, 2007, Mr. Nick Guertin (PEO IWS 7B), Director, Open Architecture spoke on the use of OA in military systems at the AFEI Open Soure Conference. View the briefing.
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CAPT Jim Shannon (PEO IWS 7), program manager, Future Combat Systems Open Architecture will chair a panel discussion on Naval Open Architecture at the 4th Annual Acquisition Research Symposium, held May 16-17, 2007 in Monterey, CA. More information on the event can be found
here.
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On Wednesday, April 18, 2007, CAPT Jim Shannon (PEO IWS 7), program manager, Future Combat Systems Open Architecture, will be speaking at the 8th Annual Science & Engineering Technology Conference / DoD Tech Expo at the Charleston Convention Center in North Charleston, SC. The topic covered will be "the Acquisition Perspective on Development of Naval Open Architectures." More information about the event can be found here.
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On Wednesday, March 14, 2007, Mr. Nick Guertin (PEO IWS 7B), Director, Open Architecture, spoke about the Open Architecture and its parallels with Open Source at a DOD open technology conference, "Open Technology: Realizing the Vision" sponsored by the Association for Enterprise Integration (AFEI). Both Mr. Guertin's presentation and those publicly available conference presentations are available on the Web.
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On Wednesday, February 21, 2007, CAPT Jim Shannon (PEO IWS 7), program manager, Future Combat Systems Open Architecture, was scheduled to participate in a panel entitled "Perspectives on Open Architecture" at the 2007 Gulf Coast Information, Integration, and Interoperability Symposium at the Pelican Landing Convention Center in Moss Point, MS. More information about the event can be found here. Although CAPT Shannon was unable to attend, his brief is available here.
